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Green Party Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr is aligned with the Green Party Platform on Israel and Palestine

From the Roseanne Barr Campaign:

Achieving Peace in Israel and Palestine
Roseanne for President 2012

April 17, 2012

Roseanne’s solutions for Peace in Israel and Palestine are deeply
rooted in her own spiritual traditions, common sense thinking, alignment
with the Green Party platform and a sincere desire to see equitable and
humane resolutions for the benefit of all the people that live in the
region.

Since 1948 each American president has “guaranteed security” for
Israel by giving them a blank check for American dollars and military
hardware. Congressmen and Senators fall all over themselves to offer
more money and weapons.

“I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and
utopia. We all have many more things in common than not. I’ve tried to
get to the very bottom of the whole subject, and I say it’s the entire
world’s fault, not just Israel’s and not just the Jews for allowing the
terrible crimes against humanity, the ethnic cleansing that is happening
in Gaza right now. No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars
make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either,
nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.”

Roseanne Barr on NoLiesRadio in 2010. See: http://noliesradio.org/archives/22098
Foreign policy, wars, cease-fires, assassinations, conflicts,
bombings, peace talks, walls, settlements, land grabs, flotillas, piracy
and hijackings at sea, and “which side are you on” have been discussed
and debated for decades regarding peace in between Israel and Palestine.
The information has been read about on the front pages of every
newspaper, been rotated on every news website, and viewed on the evening
news programs.

Currently the blockade situation for the people of Gaza has become
dire. The people that live there are incarcerated in an open air prison.
There is little sanitation, dirty water, no safe food, no medicine,
little medical care, continued attacks by land and by air, few necessary
supplies being smuggled in and few people going out. These are crimes
against humanity and this is apartheid.

Peace in Israel and Palestine will happen when there is self
determination for all and a “right of return” for the Palestinians who
have had their land stolen from them. When the US government stops
funding the Israeli war machine, when the Wall comes down, and when the
people living there organize their own discussion of how to govern
themselves they will be able to work out their differences. Their land
is small, the resources scarce and a one state solution, with real
democracy and justice for all seems the best approach towards a true and
lasting peace.

“Peace starts in the Middle East with people speaking to each other intelligently about solutions.” Roseanne Barr on the Wise Women Media Radio Show, March 2012.
See more about the Green Party’s Platform at http://www.gp.org
Connect with the campaign: http://www.roseanneforpresident2012.org

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Longtime Santa Cruz homeless advocate, Becky Johnson has written for Street Spirit, produced "Bathrobespierre's Broadsides: Civil Rights for the Poor" and has lobbied for homeless civil rights with HUFF, Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom, and produced her own television show "Club Cruz" which covered local and poverty issues. Currently Ms. Johnson is one of the founders of Peace Camp 2010 located on the courthouse steps until the City of Santa Cruz repeals the Sleeping Ban.